What a topic! This past Spring Break "The Thong Song" was really big. I danced to it just as much as anybody else. But I believe that women are more than thong models!
The way I figure, if men think that I am only a physical being, and that I have no mental substance, I can totally blind-side them. If men are really stupid enough to believe crap like that - I don't want anything to do with them. Also, most of the lyrics are childish and cartoonish. It doens't bother me at all.
What does bother me (stepping onto my soapbox) is when women get up in front of people and say "oh, I'm just expressing my womanhood." And then take off their clothes and sing about how much they need some guy who cheated and that it is there fault that he cheated and oh - please pay all my bills and support me too.
That offends me more than anything. That is why I find teen pop more offensive than hip-hop. If a rapper talks about women in certain ways everyone kinda rolls their eyes, but if a woman behaves that way - she's proving what the rapper said.
So, I guess what I'm saying is - if it sounds good and you want to listen to it - listen! Just live by example and be what real women are!
I'd be really interested to know if and guys are influenced by pop culture too.
Allie
